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: would he feel justified

in subjecting the holders

of the British

currency

now current under Royal

proclamation, and the

payers of taxes

who have

received legally

now

the same,

in

she

to the

loss as well as inconvenience

which he fears the

measure referred to would

occasion to such persons.

If the public interest

compels Her Majesty's

Government to abolish or

alter the legal valuation

of the coin introduced

from

Britain into this Colony, it should be observed

and so introduced the Colony entirely by legislation Government

Agency, it is only just

that the Government

rather than individuals

should bear

any

loss from

depreciation attending such

a measure. As regards the Colonial Secretary's

Minute furnished to the Department in the year

1858, that a large proportion

of the local revenue is levied

under a certain decision

of the Courts of Law, in Dollars,

while

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: would he feel justified in subjecting the holders of the British currency now current under Royal proclamation, and the payers of taxes who have received legally now the same, in she to the loss as well as inconvenience which he fears the measure referred to would occasion to such persons. If the public interest compels Her Majesty's Government to abolish or alter the legal valuation of the coin introduced from Britain into this Colony, it should be observed and so introduced the Colony entirely by legislation Government Agency, it is only just that the Government rather than individuals should bear any loss from depreciation attending such a measure. As regards the Colonial Secretary's Minute furnished to the Department in the year 1858, that a large proportion of the local revenue is levied under a certain decision of the Courts of Law, in Dollars, while Page 374
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: would he feel justified

in subjecting the holders

of the British

morrey

now current under Roya@

proclamation, and the

paupers of taxes

Ne

ceived legally

now

Same.

in

she

ney

to the

/

Les com how

loss as well as inconvenience

which he fears the

mecisure referred to would

occasion to such persons.

If the public interest

Compels Her eclajesty's

Government to abolish or

alter the legal valuation

of the com introduced

from

wxact in Dollar, Gro

374

from this Coventry nito.

and so introduced the Colony entirely by be it observed

legislation Government

Oud

Agency, it is only just

that the Government -

rather than individual es

1

beal

should beur

any

loge from

depreciation cellending such

a meccsure. _ Os regard stares M Mercer the Colonial Sect

has explumect in the

-Minute furnished tothe's Department in the year

1858, that a large proportion

of the local revenue is levied

of

under a certcus decision

the Courtes of Law, in Collars,

While

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